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Stanley Abe

Associate Professor of Art and Art History

Education

Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley 1989

M.A., University of California at Berkeley 1984

B.A., University of California at Berkeley 1981

Overview

Stanley Abe has published on Chinese Buddhist art, contemporary Chinese art, Asian American art, Abstract Expressionism, and the collecting of Chinese sculpture. He is now writing a narrative account of how Chinese sculpture came into existence as a category of Fine Art during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

An exhibition of twenty-two works from the storage of the Freer Gallery, co-curated with Jan Stuart; some of the works were previously considered the masterpieces of the collection but have been relegated to storage; many others have never been exhibited